Prevalence of Tuberculosis Infection Among Health-Care Workers in Hamadan, West of Iran

Hashemi, Seyyed Hamid; Mamani, Mojgan; Alizadeh, Nargess; Nazari, Mansour; Sedighi, Iraj

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“…Worldwide studies have revealed that the diagnostic value of ADA in extra pulmonary TB has been associated with controversial results (6)(7)(8)(9)(10). The present study demonstrated that the measured levels of ADA could be an acceptable contributing index in the diagnosis of extra pulmonary TB.…”

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Diagnostic Value of Serum Adenosine Deaminase Level in Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis

Salmanzadeh¹,

Soleimani²,

Mohammadi³

et al. 2018

Avicenna J Clin Microbiol Infect

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Background: Although tuberculosis is a known disease, still on occasion, the tuberculosis patients remain undiagnosed and hence not treated appropriately. In some cases, the patient is not able to give a proper sputum sample. In some other cases, expert laboratory technician to examine the patient's sputum smear is not available. Furthermore, and in most cases of extrapulmonary tuberculosis, invasive diagnostic procedures such as biopsy might be followed. The aim of this study was to investigate the diagnostic value of serum level of adenosine deaminase (ADA) in extra pulmonary tuberculosis. Methods: In this analytical study, pulmonary tuberculosis patients were compared with two other groups of patients including lung cancer patients and healthy controls, based on national tuberculosis protocol. In each group, 40 patients who almost matched for age and sex were included. Blood samples were taken from the participants to measure serum ADA levels. Data were analyzed using SPSS software version 15.0. Results: Based on the data analyzed in this study, the mean ADA level in the patients with extra pulmonary tuberculosis was 23.8 IU/L which was significantly higher than that in the other groups (P < 0.001). Mean ADA levels in lung cancer patients and in healthy subjects were 15.8 IU/L and 10.7 IU/L, respectively. Conclusions: According to the results of this study, higher cutoff value for ADA would increase the specificity up to 100%. Moreover, serum ADA level can be a valuable additional index in diagnosis of extra pulmonary tuberculosis.

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“…Therefore, TB remains a major health problem in many parts of the world (1,3,5). Almost one third of the world population (around 2 billion people) are infected with TB and are at risk to develop active pulmonary TB (1,3,6). Every year about 9 million people develop active TB and 1.5 to 2 million people die of the disease (1).…”

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Diagnostic Value of Serum Adenosine Deaminase Level in Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis

Salmanzadeh¹,

Soleimani²,

Mohammadi³

et al. 2018

Avicenna J Clin Microbiol Infect

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“…A low prevalence of LTBI (1.8%) was reported among medical and nursing students in Iran [22]. In contrast, a high prevalence of LTBI (38 to 49%) has been previously reported among HCWs in Iran [8,9,11,12]. These studies were conducted in general hospitals and evaluated LTBI among nurses, ward sisters, physicians, and service workers, most of whom have close contact with patients.…”

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“…TB remains a major public health problem in Iran [ 1 ] The prevalence of latent TB infections (LTBI) among HCWs in Iran has been reported to range from 2 to 49% [ 8 - 12 ].…”

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Prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection among tuberculosis laboratory workers in Iran

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OBJECTIVESThe risk of transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from patients to health care workers (HCWs) is a neglected problem in many countries, including Iran. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of latent tuberculosis (TB) infection (LTBI) among TB laboratory staff in Iran, and to elucidate the risk factors associated with LTBI.METHODSAll TB laboratory staff (689 individuals) employed in the TB laboratories of 50 Iranian universities of medical sciences and a random sample consisting of 317 low-risk HCWs were included in this cross-sectional study. Participants with tuberculin skin test indurations of 10 mm or more were considered to have an LTBI.RESULTSThe prevalence of LTBI among TB laboratory staff and low-risk HCWs was 24.83% (95% confidence interval [CI], 21.31 to 27.74%) and 14.82% (95% CI, 11.31 to 19.20%), respectively. No active TB cases were found in either group. After adjusting for potential confounders, TB laboratory staff were more likely to have an LTBI than low-risk HCWs (prevalence odds ratio, 2.06; 95% CI, 1.35 to 3.17).CONCLUSIONSThis study showed that LTBI are an occupational health problem among TB laboratory staff in Iran. This study reinforces the need to design and implement simple, effective, and affordable TB infection control programs in TB laboratories in Iran.

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“…Saha et al (2016) observed 61% severe pneumonia in Bangladeshi children. Hashemi et al (2014) worked on prevalence of tuberculosis and recorded 38% positive tuberculin test. Above two results were found much higher than the present study records.…”

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Communicable Diseases Among the Female Inhabitants of Lower Socio-Economic Groups in Dhaka City

Karim¹,

Khanum²,

Musa³

2020

Bangladesh J. Zool.

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A total of 900 female inhabitants of lower socioeconomic in Dhaka city, were examined during September, 2013 to August, 2015. Among them, the prevalence of gastrointestinal parasitic infestation was 66.22%. The prevalence of Urinary tract infection (UTI) was 31.44%. Among the female inhabitants, 41.33% were infected with different types of skin diseases; within these, viral, (19.35%) scabies and 38.09% were affected by boil disease. The prevalence of vector-borne diseases was infected and arthropod infections (9.41%) were found. Among them, the highest 54.28% were infected by scabies and 38.09% were affected by boil diseases. The prevalence of vector-borne diseases was 49.33%, among them four types of diseases were recorded of which 2% malaria, 7.33% filaria, 34.67% dengue and 5.33%. leishmaniasis. Four types of waterborne diseases were found such as cholera/ diarrhoea (28%), typhoid (17.11%), polio (5.11%) and hepatitis A/ Jaundice (9.67%); and overall prevalence was 59.87%. Regarding the airborne diseases, 58.44% were found to be infected, among them four types recorded, such as influenza (25.11%), mumps (10.22%), pneumonia (17.44%) and tuberculosis (5.67%). Bangladesh J. Zool. 48(1): 105-117, 2020

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Prevalence of Tuberculosis Infection Among Health-Care Workers in Hamadan, West of Iran

Cited by 8 publications

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Diagnostic Value of Serum Adenosine Deaminase Level in Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis

Diagnostic Value of Serum Adenosine Deaminase Level in Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis

Prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection among tuberculosis laboratory workers in Iran

Communicable Diseases Among the Female Inhabitants of Lower Socio-Economic Groups in Dhaka City

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